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Episode 162/227255 "Start All Over Again"
Original Air Date: October 25, 2001
Written by: Joe Sachs 
Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall 
Guest Cast:
  • Matthew Watkins - Reese Benton

  • Khandi Alexander - Jackie Benton Robbins

  • Vondie Curtis-Hall - Roger Simmons

  • Hallee Hirsh - Rachel Greene

  • Frances Sternhagen - Millicent "Gamma" Carter

  • Joseph Whipp - Alan

  • Alicia Lagano - Alan's Daughter

  • Sam Doumit - Amal

  • Leeza Vinnichenko - Yetna

  • Perry Anzilotti - Perry

  • Mia Tate - Denise

  • Joseph Marino - Joseph

  • Max Kasch - Andrew

  • Lance Barber - Howard

  • Julius Tennon - Policeman

  • Jim Jenkins - Alger (Millicent Carter's driver)

  • Emilio Rivera - Mr. Carrasco

  • Bill Chott - Mr. Ashman

  • Virginia Capers - Mrs. Wilson

  • Vernee Watson-Johnson - Ms. Wilson

Staff:

  • Laura Ceron - Chuny Marquez

  • Yvette Freeman - Haleh Adams

  • Dinah Lenney - Nurse Shirley

  • Deezer D. - Malik McGrath

  • Troy Evans - Frank Martin

  • Gedde Watanabe - Yosh

  • Monte' Russell - Paramedic Zadro

  • Emily Wagner - Paramedic Pickman

  • Brian Lester - Paramedic Dumar

  • Danny Arroyo - Mooney (medical student)

  • Eddie Shin - Stanley (medical student)

  • Salli Saffioti - Carmen Turino (Worker from Infection Control)

Kerry Weaver is on the phone in the lounge.  She has some personal information to tell someone, but she is having to leave a message.  Susan Lewis is coming in for her first shift back and she asks Kerry for a locker.  Kerry tells her that she can have Chen's locker.  She is then greeted by Malik, who heard that she was back, but could not believe it.  She wonders what happened to the board, and they tell her that Weaver had changed it.  Cleo introduces herself to Dr. Lewis and passes on some patients for her.  Peter sees Dr. Lewis and then asks Cleo out for breakfast.  Cleo has been offered a chance to run a pediatric urgent care 40 minutes away in Schaumburg.  Mark and Elizabeth are trying to get things together to leave for work.  Rachel asks for permission to go to a party that night, which is a school night.  Mark speaks to her friend's mother on the phone and agrees that it will be okay.  Then a boy comes knocking at the door to give Rachel a ride to school.  Mark hardly even puts up a fight an lets her go.  Elizabeth says, "Well, I guess she is making friends".

Susan takes care of a patient with an upset stomach who does not want to take his clothes off to be examined.  He tells her that she just wants to see him naked.  Mark greets her and makes fun of her first day.  Carter is touring his new students.  There are two of them.  It is a part of his Chief Resident position.  Carter then visits with Susan, until she stops to ask a nurse a question.  Carter introduces Susan to the nurse, Abby Lockhart.  She wants her to set her up for suturing.  She tells Susan where she can get the stuff herself.  They then get called away to a trauma.  A man's brother is unresponsive.  He wants to make sure he will not die.  Abby and Mooney, the medical student, take care of another patient.  He gives him some medicine under his tongue.  He gave him three sprays and the patient automatically worsens.  He gave the patient too much medicine.  Abby saves the day.  She catches Carter in the hall and tells him of his student's mistake.  He was suppose to give the three sprays every five minutes.  Mark and Chuny run out to assist a man who was struck by a car.  His name is Alan and his daughter tells Mark what had happened.  Susan explains to her patient's brother that he is still in a coma.  She asks if he has ever seen a psychiatrist.  She is hollering over the construction that is going on.  She tells him that her patient is faking it.  Susan's other patient is still dressed and wants to know what is taking her so long.  He tells her that he wants to speak to his surgeon, the British chick with red hair.   Kerry and Peter assist Mark with his patient, Alan.  Alan's daughter apologizes to her father, as they look on.  He tells her that she didn't see him.  They wonder what she is apologizing about.  Elizabeth takes care of an elderly woman.  She will need colon surgery.  The daughter wants to wait a few days, but Corday says it needs to be sooner.  Susan comes in for a consult for Mr. Ashman.  Elizabeth learns that Susan hasn't even examined him yet and wants to know why she is bothering her with it.  Susan then tells Abby to examine the man.  Abby hands Susan a gown.  Susan then catches the patient who was faking a coma, getting beat up by his brother.  He is beating the guy's legs with a metal bar.  Susan calls for a nurse to call security.  Kerry speaks to Alan's daughter.  She wants to know if she can call her mom for her.  She tells Kerry that it is just the two of them.  He had taken her out to lunch because she had just gotten in to Law School.  Kerry tells her that he may have a crushed pelvis.  He had been pinned against something.  She tells her that it was a wall.  She thought she had the car in reverse, but it wasn't.  Kerry shows concern.

Abby and Carter discuss Dr. Lewis.  She wonders if she has always been high maintenance.  Carter then gives Susan another patient.  A female with abdominal pain.  Corday sees Susan and learns that her hunch was right about her patient.  Corday will take a look at the man, but Frank tells her that one of her patients has coded in the SICU and she has to make the man wait.  Susan had finally convinced him to let her examine him with his clothes off.  Susan checks on her patient with abdominal pain, Amal.  She has been in pain since yesterday.  She has to be home in 2 hours no matter what.  Peter takes Alan to surgery.  The daughter wants to go up with him.  The police want to question her.  He suspects a DUI.  Kerry talks him into waiting until after the surgery.  Susan's patient wants to have an abortion.  She tells Susan that she has to be a virgin on her wedding day.  Susan does an ultrasound.  She will be sent out of the country if her parents find out.  Susan tells her that she has an ectopic pregnancy and needs surgery immediately.  Yosh comes in and tells Susan that they need her right away.  Susan tells Amal to stay put and that she will be right back.  Susan goes with Yosh.  A paramedic had given a woman some medicine and she started seizing over 40 minutes ago.  Luka is working with her.  She introduces herself to Luka.  Elizabeth is working on her elderly patient.  Romano asks if she is trying to raise the dead.  This is her third post op infection for the week.  Susan asks her patient's husband about the medicine she had been taking.  She learns that she has taken too much of it.  The label says to take once a day, which is once (11) in Spanish.  She tells the husband that they will help her.  Carter is taking care of a woman with gall stones, when his student rushes out after him.  His patient is crashing and needs to be shocked.  Stanley will get to shock him.  Carter is standing too close and gets shocked in his private area.  Luka and Susan try to save their patient.  She wants Yosh to find some Paradoxin from wherever he can get it; nobody in the area has it.  Peter and Romano are scrubbing in for Alan.  Peter gets a call from Roger and he tells them to take a message.  Yosh tells the doctors that it will be ten minutes before the medicine will arrive from Mercy, but Susan and Luka's patient has died.

Abby checks on Carter.  He tells her that he is better.  Stanley apologizes to Dr. Carter.  He offers to help, but Carter tells him that he has done enough for the day.  Roger comes to Peter's surgery asking about Reese.  He is missing from daycare.  Abby releases Susan's patient.  His stomach is feeling better after he drank some of the Russian water that Carter's gall stone patient had.  Susan then learns that the girl in exam one ran off.  She is the girl with the ectopic pregnancy.  Alger brings Gamma in and asks to see Dr. Carter.  Susan does not know who she is, so she tells her that she will have to wait.  When she learns that she is Carter's grandmother, she apologizes.  Millicent tells her that she must only be rude to strangers.  Carter learns that she fainted outside of Marshall Field's.  She says that she did not faint.  Elizabeth's patient, Mrs. Wilson, is told by Dr. Corday that her surgery went very well.  She thanks her.  Carmen Turino from Infection Control needs to speak with Corday about a patient that had died earlier.  She tells Elizabeth that she needs to be cultured.  Her surgical privileges could be suspended if she does not cooperate.  Romano and Anspaugh are supporting Carmen.  Susan informs Mark about her patient who left the ER without being treated for her ectopic pregnancy.  She tells Mark that she believes the girl will return.  Dr. Corday calls to speak with Mark.  Kerry speaks with Susan about the nursing shortage.  They have been complaining about the way she has been treating them.  Kerry is told that the blood alcohol came back on the girl who ran over her father.  Mark asks Susan to cover his last hour.  He has to go home to tend to Ella, since she has to stay and be cultured.  Roger shows up at surgery and tells Peter that he still can not find Reese.  Peter has to leave and tells Roger to call the police.  Carter looks at Gamma's EKG and it looks good.  She tells Carter that Alger means well, but sometimes he is annoyingly condescending.  She had just missed lunch.  Carter asks if she has been depressed.  She tells him that she just misses her husband.  She wants to go to her appointments.  He wants her to stay for more tests.  Susan calls Amal's home looking for her.  She pretends to be a friend from Amal's school.  She will call back.  Yosh comes to find Dr. Lewis.  Mr. Carrasco, her patient who died from the OD's husband, is still waiting.  She has to go tell him about his wife's death.  She explains everything to him in Spanish.  Elizabeth gets swabbed and tested for infection control.  Peter storms out of surgery and finds Roger on the phone with the police.  Peter picks up the phone and hatefully tells the person on the other end of the phone to send a detective right away.  Kerry sees a chart laying around and asks who it belongs to.  Susan tells her that it belongs to her.  She sees that the patient has left the hospital.  She tells Kerry that she is trying to protect the girl.  She knows that she will return.

Roger and Peter are still worried about Reese, when Jackie comes in with him.  She had left a message on the voice mail for Peter.  She is surprised that Roger is still picking him up.  He does every Tuesday and Thursday.  Reese had been fighting during recess.  Jackie says he needs more stability.  Her and Roger argue a while.  Chuny sees Weaver and tells her that the OR called and doesn't believe her patient is going to make it.  Carter finds Gamma leaving against medical advice.  He asks Alger to check on her in about an hour.  Susan apologizes again to Carter for offending her.  They chat on the bench for a while.  Abby comes looking for Carter and sees the two of them holding hands.  Pickman is bringing in a woman in active labor.  Carter, Abby and Susan help her.  The switch is broken and the patient's bed rises to the ceiling.  Susan runs to get a ladder.  Abby tells them to call Luka, he is tall.  They deliver the baby boy safely.  Kerry has to tell the daughter of her patient that her father died.  The police come in to arrest her.  She wants them to let the daughter see her father.  Weaver watches as the girl sobs and says she is sorry.  Mark and Elizabeth are home worrying about Rachel.  She is not home from the party.  She finally walks in, but doesn't seem concerned about being late.  She gives them an excuse and Mark tells her not to ever let it happen again.  She then tells him that if she had a cell phone she could keep in touch.  Susan's patient has finally returned.  She apologizes for being late.  Susan can't find Amal's chart and learns that Weaver has it and is on a call in the lounge.  Susan runs to the lounge to find Weaver on the phone.  She tells her that the girl is here and hangs Weaver up.  She learns that Weaver wasn't on the phone with Amal's parents.  Susan walks out and Kerry makes her call again.  She tells the woman on the phone that an investigator gave her the number.  She is calling a woman who had given up her daughter for adoption.  The woman does not want to speak with her and Kerry apologizes and hangs up.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on November 02, 2001

NBC Review

SHERRY STRINGFIELD RETURNS TO DUTY ON 'ER' -- A wary Dr. Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) returns to County General and clashes with Abby (Maura Tierney) and others while her patients include a misunderstood Hispanic woman with seizures -- and Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) treats an injured man (guest star Joseph Whipp) whose frantic daughter mistakenly crushed him with her car. Elsewhere, Lewis ministers to a man who is pretending to be comatose for a very good reason; Dr. Benton (Eriq La Salle) tries to leave the surgery room when he learns that his young son is missing; Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) is shocked to see his ailing grandmother (guest star Frances Sternhagen) brought to the hospital; Dr. Corday (Alex Kingston) must adapt to co-habitating with Greene's teenaged daughter (guest star Hallee Hirsh) and is investigated when another patient dies of infection. Laura Innes, Goran Visnjic and Paul McCrane also star.

TV Guide Review

October 25, 2001: Start All Over Again: On her first day back, Lewis puts her new job in jeopardy after clashing with Kerry over a pregnant teen who may be deported if her folks learn of her condition. Meanwhile, Corday comes under fire after losing a patient to an odd infection she may be spreading; Carter's grandmother arrives in need of medical care, but she's opposed to his aid; and Abby bristles at a newly emerging relationship in the ER.